"FLYING HOTEL"
INQUIRY INTO DISASTER
CAUSE STILL UNKNOWN
(Bloc. Tel. Copyright—United Pross Assn.) (Received January 5,2 p.m.) THE HAGUE, Jan. 4.
Herr Plesman, manager of the Dutch Airline, returned by air with the commissioners who inquired into the disaster of the "Flying Hotel." He says that though the first, medical examination of the. victims suggested that lightning had caused their deaths, the commissioners now reported that the victims were hilled iu the crash, in which their necks were broken.
The cause of the accident is still unknown. The machine was in good Hying condition, with no engine defects or constructional faults. The plane, after landing in the desert when Hying at 150 miles an hour, traversed 100yds .ind then overturned. The commissioners report that tho aeroplane must have - struck the ground, risen again, crashed ICOyds farther on, and was destroyed. The victims were killed after the'crash, the fall breaking their necks.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18596, 5 January 1935, Page 6
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